Word: diphtheria
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...amounts varying from a few thousand to several hundred thousand dollars. To scholars doing advanced scientific work it provided 222 grants. It provided 700 fellowships for post-graduate training. It conducted research through a field staff of 70 public health experts on yellow fever, malaria, hookworm disease, tuberculosis, yaws, diphtheria, schistosomiasis. influenza. Its money flowed into 53 foreign countries from Scandinavia to Java. The agencies which it helped included 41 local and national governments, 44 educational institutions, 20 research institutes, two libraries, 23 councils, associations, societies and commissions, mostly national or international...
...Organized Medicine logically must accept the following corollaries: 1) Every one of the 150,000 U. S. doctors must become an officer in the Federal Public Health Service, the Government to pay for all the preventive medicine which they practice in their offices, such as immunizations against smallpox, diphtheria, typhoid...
...delivered to a State anatomical board, of which Dr. Addinell Hewson, Professor of Anatomy in Temple University Dental School, is secretary. Further exceptions are made in the cases of bodies of U. S. soldiers, sailors and marines, Pennsylvania militiamen, and travelers; and persons dying of "smallpox, scarlet fever, diphtheria, meningitis, bubonic plague, typhus, yellow fever, cholera, leprosy, anthrax, glanders, erysipelas. Alcoholics, overweight bodies, mutilated or decomposed bodies must be buried by public authority because unfit...
...Allan Roy Dafoe of Callander, Ont. protested proposed reduction of his salary as town medical officer from $75 to $40 a year. Declaring that he had performed 75 smallpox and 800 diphtheria inoculations last year besides attending the Dionne quintuplets, whose publicity has made him well off, Dr. Dafoe demanded $350 a year: was given...
...Coast Guard established headquarters at Evansville, brought 225 of its boats on the scene for rescue work, sent for nearly 200 more from points as far distant as Boston. It had 15 airplanes in action. The U. S. Public Health Service was busy shipping anti-typhoid and smallpox vaccine, diphtheria antitoxin, influenza and pneumonia serum; was mobilizing a corps of sanitary engineers to face new problems as the flood recedes. Revenue agents were ordered to give up "still" chasing and use their cars to transport refugees. Even the Narcotics Bureau was busy shipping supplies of codeine and other needed drugs...